Asbestos fight at grain silo site

Asbestos fight at grain silo site

A union wants work on the ABB grain silos at Outer Harbor in Adelaide to stop until soil contaminated with asbestos is removed from the site.

The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union says more than 17,000 tonnes of contaminated soil has been transported to the site for landfill.

Government inspectors say the asbestos component is 1 per cent or less.

But Martin O’Malley from the union says he is not satisfied that workers are safe.

“The EPA (Environment Protection Authority) last week went down there with the department, SafeWork SA department, and they discover, yes, there was asbestos there but their view was it wasn’t of a magnitude to worry anyone,” he said.

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One per cent is A LOT of asbestos. I think that the people that are saying it’s safe at 1% should go and work there themselves.
As far as i’m aware there is no safe exposure level. Thank god for union’s never forget without union support you would be forced to work under these ‘safe’ conditions.